December 13 (Tue.) 14:00-15:00 Culture/Arts
Chair
YAMAMOTO Satomi
Associate Director, WIAS/Professor, School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University
Research Field：Art history
Satomi Yamamoto is Professor of the School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, and Director of Research Institute for Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, and Associate Director of WIAS. Her research filed is art history and specializes in the history of Japanese Medieval Buddhist paintings. Received the 66th Art Encouragement Prize and the 14th Kadokawa Foundation Prize for Arts and Letters for her book Kusōzu ｗo yomu: kuchiteyuku shitai no bijutsushi ( “Reading the Kusōzu: Art History of a Decaying Corpse”; KADOKAWA, 2015). She is the author of Yami no Nihon bijutsu (“Japanese Art of the Dark”; Chikuma Shinsho, 2018) and Chūsei bukkyō kaiga no zuzōshi: kyōsetsu emaki, rokudō-e, kusōzu (“A Genealogy of Imagery in Medieval Buddhist Paintings: From Six Realms of Rebirth to Nine Stages of Decay”; Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 2020).
Speakers
XU Alison
Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University
Research Field：International Jurisprudence
Alison Xu is Assistant Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) at Waseda University. She received her Ph.D. in Law from the University of Leeds. Her research interests lie broadly in the interface between public and private international law and the interdisciplinary study of law. The central question of her research is to ask how international law responds to global challenges such as climate change, technological innovations, and human rights violations in the modern era, with a focus on the dynamics among individuals, firms, NGOs, IOs and states against the global context. Her papers have appeared in international law journals, including the International & Comparative Law Quarterlyand Asia Journal of International Law. She received several scholarships and writing awards, including the Hague Academy of International Law, the China Society of Private International Law, and Stanford University.
KASAI Amane
Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University
Research Field：Artistic practices
Amane Kasai is a musicologist who completed her Ph.D. in 2010 at Tokyo University of the Arts. She is currently Assistant Professor at Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University. Her research has examined historical, cultural, and social environments where people have practiced music and performing arts from cross-genre viewpoints. Her present project reviews tourist sites, particularly hot spring resorts, as auditory spaces where people with different music preferences and backgrounds have gathered and experienced performances together. She has recently contributed chapters to: Hosokawa, Shuhei (ed.) (2021), Oto to Mimi kara Kangaeru: Rekishi, Shintai, Tekunorojī (Reflecting on an Ear for Sound: History, Embodiment and Technology), Tokyo: Artes Publishing; Nishimura, Masao and Hoshino, Yukiyo (eds) (2020), Idōsuru Media to Puropaganda: Nittyū Sensōki kara Sengo ni kakete no Taisyū Geizyutu (The Media and Propaganda in Motion: The Popular Arts between the Sino-Japanese War and the Postwar Era), Tokyo: Bensei Publishing.
FUJITA Tomohiro
Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University
Research Field：Space Physics
Tomohiro Fujita is an Assistant Professor in Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS). His research examines the beginning of our Universe and what composes our Universe. His articles have appeared in Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. He also actively contributes to an art project at WIAS which is creating a new type of contemporary art through a fusion of natural science and arts. He obtained his Ph.D. at the university of Tokyo. Before joining WIAS in 2021, he worked for Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University and Geneva University as a postdoctoral scholar.
BLOOMFIELD Jacob
WIAS Visiting Scholar/Postdoctoral Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz
Research Field：Cultural history
Jacob Bloomfield is a Zukunftskolleg Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Konstanz and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent. His research is situated primarily in the fields of Cultural History, the History of Sexuality, and Gender History. Bloomfield is the author of Drag: A British History (University of California Press, 2023); his first monograph. He is currently working on a second monograph about the historical reception to and cultural legacy of musician Little Richard.
OSAWA Maho
Graduate School of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda University
Research Field：Art history
Maho Osawa is a Master’s Student at the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University. Her major is Japanese medieval art history. Her recent work is Bukki-gun emaki owned by Waseda University Library : Reprint and bibliographical notes (WASEDA RILAS JOURNAL.10).
